Full weekend in London with our Yugoslawomen+ Collective thinking and plotting about new works. Loved seeing together 'Palestine 36' movie as part of the London Palestine Film Festival.

Join us in welcoming @sandeepbak.bsky.social who will be giving a guest lecture «Queer Praxis, Violence, and Emancipation» at the @innpeace-online.bsky.social on the 17th November

@ebstavrevska.bsky.social @sladjanalazic.bsky.social

Israel has assassinated almost 270 Palestinian journalists. This is aimed at suppressing coverage of its livestreamed genocide and creating a media blackout ahead of its plan to commit further atrocities. Take action now. Read more: loom.ly/A8L7S08

As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez

Re-reading this fantastic special issue edited by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - "Peace in plural: towards decolonial and feminist approaches to peace" - packed with knowledge, courage and timely critique on peace vs. war dichotomies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The video of 🇮🇱 envoy to 🇦🇹 during a meeting in Innsbruck was shared by media www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli.... That same individual also met with the highest representatives of the University of Innsbruck & the so called Austria-Israel Academic Network Innsbruck.

In times of siege, we have no alternative but to besiege the state of siege in the hope to open new horizons for us and others. —Mahmoud Darwish

Submission to the colonial logic that vilifies the violence of the oppressed & turns a blind eye to the oppressor’s violence became the price of admission. The above thought by Mohammed El-Kurd is an indictment of our (academics) refusal to confront our complicity in upholding colonial difference.

New UN report shows "Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence ... and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Nothing humbles me more than Bulgarian split squats

Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia. ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...

All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.

International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague: docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...

What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

A statement of solidarity with student protests in Serbia, from all of us in the Yugoslawomen+ Collective. ✊ We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests. #SerbiaProtests tinyurl.com/4macbrsd

I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent. -- Antonio Gramsci (born 22.01.1891)

Thousands of people gathered today in #Belgrade to demand accountability from the Vučić regime for the 15 lives lost in Novi Sad, in what appeared to be yet another corruption scandal. The protests are led by university students. More here: apnews.com/article/serb...

Great to see this #CallforPapers on Gaza, genocide and sociology from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social go live - responding to our manifesto call to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures - with thanks to all those involved in making this happen thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Some of the ideas were first put on paper back in 2019, so it has been many years in the making. In navigating a pandemic, precarity, & life during multiple genocides, all the brilliant contributors, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I have brought a lot of love and hope in creating this collective space

In the intro, one of the hardest things ever to write, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I reflect on the inspiration behind it, largely through our post-Yugoslav experiences, the process of bringing it all together & on thinking about peace and writing during genocide www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The @jisb.bsky.social special issue, Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial & Feminist Approaches to Peace, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I co-edited, with a lot of care, comradery & grief, has been out for a little while, so finally getting around to sharing it here www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/1...

Congratulations to the editors and all the authors!

We are incredibly excited to announce that this wonderful Special Issue is out with Issue 4 of 2024! Edited by Sladjana Lazic and Elena B Stravrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace Read the intro👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disturbing a Discipline: Towards Pluriversal Peace and Conflict Studies by Mahdis Azarmandi Now out in the new SI "Peace in Plural" with Issue 4, 2024. The article examines the implications of race critical & decolonial theories for peace & conflict studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A necessary toolkit

As we prepare for hibernation, our minds turn to blooms. Submit 200-word pitches by Dec 20 for essays on growth, fertility, and the Balkans. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/seasonal-sho...

The fact that BlueSky has prioritized building for Federation over building for safety is a reminder that this is still a platform where a few people are making the choices for us and people shouldn’t forget that. Even if they’re a B Corp!

In my estimation, BlueSky is far less safe for users than Twitter was before Apartheid Clyde took over. BSky is now the better choice, but less safe than I would like it to be. There is no option for going private, for example.

Block lists are public to anyone who knows how to use the BSky API. This is one of the reasons I was against making the move. docs.bsky.app/blog/block-i...

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. —Edward Said

📢📜 Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies at University of Toronto's Institute of Islamic Studies, with a focus on Palestine and/or Palestinian archives: palestinestudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u... #GLAMS #critarch #archives

As the world has focused on the Gaza genocide, a massive Israeli campaign of violence and displacement has taken place across the West Bank. Photojournalist David Lombeida tells the stories of families in the South Hebron Hills and Jordan Valley. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/photo-essay-the-sile…

You’re not getting news and images from Sudan because when both the RSF and the Army catch people filming they kill them on sight. Sudan is also a vast territory and this cruel war is everywhere. Some people are smuggling out phone footage intermittently but it is hard.

Join us!

I have a pleasure to host Dr Nizam Salahat from Al-Istiqlal Uni, West Bank at the #InnPeaceResearch next week for his online lecture on dehumanization in the neocolonial context. Registration 👉 bit.ly/InnPeace_Nizam

I have a pleasure to host Dr Nizam Salahat from Al-Istiqlal Uni, West Bank at the #InnPeaceResearch next week for his online lecture on dehumanization in the neocolonial context. Registration 👉 bit.ly/InnPeace_Nizam

the siege of sarajevo ended 28 years ago today. and the four years of war have shaped my life and my parents lives in countless ways. & so the only thing I’m feeling right now is end the occupation & free Palestine

Lana Bastašić, one of the more prominent bosnian writers, just cut ties with her German publishers over their stance on Palestine and their silence over the silencing of cultural workers and institutions in Germany.

Join me & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & @sidtrip.bsky.social for our #EWIS2024 workshop "Thinking, Knowing, & Doing Peace Otherwise" in wonderful Istanbul, from 3rd-5th July 2024! See info here eisa-net.org/wp-content/u..., & apply here eisa-net.org/ewis-2024/ab.... Deadline 5th February. Come :)